NGC 7460
| Galaxy NGC 7460 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | fishes |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 23 h 01 m 42.9 s |
| declination | + 02 ° 15 ′ 49 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) b / pec: / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 37 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.010647 +/- 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | 3192 +/- 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(149 ± 10) · 10 6 ly (45.6 ± 3.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan |
| Discovery date | September 21, 1876 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 7460 • UGC 12312 • PGC 70287 • CGCG 379-023 • MCG + 00-58-021 • IRAS 22591 + 0159 • 2MASX J23014291 + 0215489 • NVSS J230142 + 021549 | |
NGC 7460 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation areas of the Hubble type SB (s) b in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 149 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 60,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 7458 , NGC 7478 , NGC 7480 , among others .
The object was discovered on September 21, 1876 by the astronomer Édouard Stephan .